Jean Mario Paul

From WikiLeaks

A journalist and radio correspondent, Paul is a native of Petit Gôave, 20 miles southwest of Port-au-Prince, Paul was well-known for his stories broadcast on Radio Antilles exposing local official corruption. He also wrote as a political analyst for two newspapers: Petit Gôave Info, and May Nan May, a Catholic journal. In the wake of the coup which ousted President Aristide, his home and that of his mother's were burnt down. On November 9, 1991, Paul was arrested while covering a demonstration in Grand Gôave and was charged with setting fire to a court house and police station and with possession of firearms. Paul denied the charges and no credible evidence of his guilt was ever produced. Paul was, however, brutally tortured while in police detention and was briefly hospitalized as a result.